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MyVariant.info is a comprehensive aggregation of variant annotation resources. myvariant is a wrapper for querying MyVariant.info services

MyGene.Info_ provides simple-to-use REST web services to query/retrieve gene annotation data. It's designed with simplicity and performance emphasized. *mygene*, is an easy-to-use R wrapper to access MyGene.Info_ services.

The *MungeSumstats* package is designed to facilitate the standardisation of GWAS summary statistics. It reformats inputted summary statisitics to include SNP, CHR, BP and can look up these values if any are missing. It also pefrorms dozens of QC and filtering steps to ensure high data quality and minimise inter-study differences.

MultimodalExperiment is an S4 class that integrates bulk and single-cell experiment data; it is optimally storage-efficient, and its methods are exceptionally fast. It effortlessly represents multimodal data of any nature and features normalized experiment, subject, sample, and cell annotations, which are related to underlying biological experiments through maps. Its coordination methods are opt-in and employ database-like join operations internally to deliver fast and flexible management of multimodal data.

Harmonize data management of multiple experimental assays performed on an overlapping set of specimens. It provides a familiar Bioconductor user experience by extending concepts from SummarizedExperiment, supporting an open-ended mix of standard data classes for individual assays, and allowing subsetting by genomic ranges or rownames. Facilities are provided for reshaping data into wide and long formats for adaptability to graphing and downstream analysis.

The package provides statistical tools for detecting differentially abundant proteins in shotgun mass spectrometry-based proteomic experiments with tandem mass tag (TMT) labeling. It provides multiple functionalities, including aata visualization, protein quantification and normalization, and statistical modeling and inference. Furthermore, it is inter-operable with other data processing tools, such as Proteome Discoverer, MaxQuant, OpenMS and SpectroMine.

MSstatsShiny is an R-Shiny graphical user interface (GUI) integrated with the R packages MSstats, MSstatsTMT, and MSstatsPTM. It provides a point and click end-to-end analysis pipeline applicable to a wide variety of experimental designs. These include data-dependedent acquisitions (DDA) which are label-free or tandem mass tag (TMT)-based, as well as DIA, SRM, and PRM acquisitions and those targeting post-translational modifications (PTMs). The application automatically saves users selections and builds an R script that recreates their analysis, supporting reproducible data analysis.

Tools for detecting drug-protein interactions and estimating IC50 values from chemoproteomics data. Implements semi-parametric isotonic regression, bootstrapping, and curve fitting to evaluate compound effects on protein abundance.

MSstatsPTM provides general statistical methods for quantitative characterization of post-translational modifications (PTMs). Supports DDA, DIA, SRM, and tandem mass tag (TMT) labeling. Typically, the analysis involves the quantification of PTM sites (i.e., modified residues) and their corresponding proteins, as well as the integration of the quantification results. MSstatsPTM provides functions for summarization, estimation of PTM site abundance, and detection of changes in PTMs across experimental conditions.

The MSstatsLOBD package allows calculation and visualization of limit of blac (LOB) and limit of detection (LOD). We define the LOB as the highest apparent concentration of a peptide expected when replicates of a blank sample containing no peptides are measured. The LOD is defined as the measured concentration value for which the probability of falsely claiming the absence of a peptide in the sample is 0.05, given a probability 0.05 of falsely claiming its presence. These functionalities were previously a part of the MSstats package. The methodology is described in Galitzine (2018) <doi:10.1074/mcp.RA117.000322>.

Tools for LiP peptide and protein significance analysis. Provides functions for summarization, estimation of LiP peptide abundance, and detection of changes across conditions. Utilizes functionality across the MSstats family of packages.

MSstatsConvert provides tools for importing reports of Mass Spectrometry data processing tools into R format suitable for statistical analysis using the MSstats and MSstatsTMT packages.

MSstats package provide tools for preprocessing, summarization and differential analysis of mass spectrometry (MS) proteomics data. Recently, some MS protocols enable acquisition of data sets that result in larger than memory quantitative data. MSstats functions are not able to process such data. MSstatsBig package provides additional converter functions that enable processing larger than memory data sets.

A set of tools for statistical relative protein significance analysis in DDA, SRM and DIA experiments.

msqrob2 provides a robust linear mixed model framework for assessing differential abundance in MS-based Quantitative proteomics experiments. Our workflows can start from raw peptide intensities or summarised protein expression values. The model parameter estimates can be stabilized by ridge regression, empirical Bayes variance estimation and robust M-estimation. msqrob2's hurde workflow can handle missing data without having to rely on hard-to-verify imputation assumptions, and, outcompetes state-of-the-art methods with and without imputation for both high and low missingness. It builds on QFeature infrastructure for quantitative mass spectrometry data to store the model results together with the raw data and preprocessed data.

Extracts MS/MS ID data from mzIdentML (leveraging mzID package) or text files. After collating the search results from multiple datasets it assesses their identification quality and optimize filtering criteria to achieve the maximum number of identifications while not exceeding a specified false discovery rate. Also contains a number of utilities to explore the MS/MS results and assess missed and irregular enzymatic cleavages, mass measurement accuracy, etc.

MSnbase provides infrastructure for manipulation, processing and visualisation of mass spectrometry and proteomics data, ranging from raw to quantitative and annotated data.

Infrastructure to store and manage all aspects related to a complete proteomics or metabolomics mass spectrometry (MS) experiment. The MsExperiment package provides light-weight and flexible containers for MS experiments building on the new MS infrastructure provided by the Spectra, QFeatures and related packages. Along with raw data representations, links to original data files and sample annotations, additional metadata or annotations can also be stored within the MsExperiment container. To guarantee maximum flexibility only minimal constraints are put on the type and content of the data within the containers.

The MsDataHub package uses the ExperimentHub infrastructure to distribute raw mass spectrometry data files, peptide spectrum matches or quantitative data from proteomics and metabolomics experiments.

MsCoreUtils defines low-level functions for mass spectrometry data and is independent of any high-level data structures. These functions include mass spectra processing functions (noise estimation, smoothing, binning, baseline estimation), quantitative aggregation functions (median polish, robust summarisation, ...), missing data imputation, data normalisation (quantiles, vsn, ...), misc helper functions, that are used across high-level data structure within the R for Mass Spectrometry packages.

Mass spectrometry (MS) data backend supporting import and handling of MS/MS spectra from NIST MSP Format (msp) files. Import of data from files with different MSP *flavours* is supported. Objects from this package add support for MSP files to Bioconductor's Spectra package. This package is thus not supposed to be used without the Spectra package that provides a complete infrastructure for MS data handling.

Mass spectrometry (MS) data backend supporting import and export of MS/MS spectra data from Mascot Generic Format (mgf) files. Objects defined in this package are supposed to be used with the Spectra Bioconductor package. This package thus adds mgf file support to the Spectra package.

MetaboLights is one of the main public repositories for storage of metabolomics experiments, which includes analysis results as well as raw data. The MsBackendMetaboLights package provides functionality to retrieve and represent mass spectrometry (MS) data from MetaboLights. Data files are downloaded and cached locally avoiding repetitive downloads. MS data from metabolomics experiments can thus be directly and seamlessly integrated into R-based analysis workflows with the Spectra and MsBackendMetaboLights package.

Mass spectrometry (MS) data backend supporting import and export of MS/MS library spectra from MassBank record files. Different backends are available that allow handling of data in plain MassBank text file format or allow also to interact directly with MassBank SQL databases. Objects from this package are supposed to be used with the Spectra Bioconductor package. This package thus adds MassBank support to the Spectra package.

Tools for data management, count preprocessing, and differential analysis in massively parallel report assays (MPRA).

Monocle performs differential expression and time-series analysis for single-cell expression experiments. It orders individual cells according to progress through a biological process, without knowing ahead of time which genes define progress through that process. Monocle also performs differential expression analysis, clustering, visualization, and other useful tasks on single cell expression data. It is designed to work with RNA-Seq and qPCR data, but could be used with other types as well.

Representing nucleotide modifications in a nucleotide sequence is usually done via special characters from a number of sources. This represents a challenge to work with in R and the Biostrings package. The Modstrings package implements this functionallity for RNA and DNA sequences containing modified nucleotides by translating the character internally in order to work with the infrastructure of the Biostrings package. For this the ModRNAString and ModDNAString classes and derivates and functions to construct and modify these objects despite the encoding issues are implemenented. In addition the conversion from sequences to list like location information (and the reverse operation) is implemented as well.

This package detects statistically significant differences between read enrichment profiles in different ChIP-Seq samples. To take advantage of shape differences it uses Kernel methods (Maximum Mean Discrepancy, MMD).

The missRows package implements the MI-MFA method to deal with missing individuals ('biological units') in multi-omics data integration. The MI-MFA method generates multiple imputed datasets from a Multiple Factor Analysis model, then the yield results are combined in a single consensus solution. The package provides functions for estimating coordinates of individuals and variables, imputing missing individuals, and various diagnostic plots to inspect the pattern of missingness and visualize the uncertainty due to missing values.

Translating mature miRNA names to different miRBase versions, sequence retrieval, checking names for validity and detecting miRBase version of a given set of names (data from http://www.mirbase.org/).

Analysis of de novo copy number variants in trios from high-dimensional genotyping platforms.

Tools to analyze & visualize Illumina Infinium methylation arrays.

This package implements various algorithms for inferring mutual information networks from data.

Different data resources for microRNAs and some functions for manipulating them.

miaDash provides a Graphical User Interface for the exploration of microbiome data. This way, no knowledge of programming is required to perform analyses. Datasets can be imported, manipulated, analysed and visualised with a user-friendly interface.

Model-based Gene Set Analysis (MGSA) is a Bayesian modeling approach for gene set enrichment. The package mgsa implements MGSA and tools to use MGSA together with the Gene Ontology.

This package uses an innovative network-based approach that will enhance our ability to determine the identities of significant ions detected by LC-MS.

methylKit is an R package for DNA methylation analysis and annotation from high-throughput bisulfite sequencing. The package is designed to deal with sequencing data from RRBS and its variants, but also target-capture methods and whole genome bisulfite sequencing. It also has functions to analyze base-pair resolution 5hmC data from experimental protocols such as oxBS-Seq and TAB-Seq. Methylation calling can be performed directly from Bismark aligned BAM files.

Permutation analysis, based on Monte Carlo sampling, for testing the hypothesis that the number of conserved differentially methylated elements, between several generations, is associated to an effect inherited from a treatment and that stochastic effect can be dismissed.

Perform step by step methylation analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data.

Simulate a multigeneration methylation case versus control experiment with inheritance relation using a real control dataset.

This package implements functions for calling methylation for all cytosines in the genome.

The probabilities by one-sided NOISeq are combined by Fisher's method or Stouffer's method

The package conducts pathway testing from untargetted metabolomics data. It requires the user to supply feature-level test results, from case-control testing, regression, or other suitable feature-level tests for the study design. Weights are given to metabolic features based on how many metabolites they could potentially match to. The package can combine positive and negative mode results in pathway tests.

MetaPhOR was developed to enable users to assess metabolic dysregulation using transcriptomic-level data (RNA-sequencing and Microarray data) and produce publication-quality figures. A list of differentially expressed genes (DEGs), which includes fold change and p value, from DESeq2 or limma, can be used as input, with sample size for MetaPhOR, and will produce a data frame of scores for each KEGG pathway. These scores represent the magnitude and direction of transcriptional change within the pathway, along with estimated p-values.MetaPhOR then uses these scores to visualize metabolic profiles within and between samples through a variety of mechanisms, including: bubble plots, heatmaps, and pathway models.

metagenomeSeq is designed to determine features (be it Operational Taxanomic Unit (OTU), species, etc.) that are differentially abundant between two or more groups of multiple samples. metagenomeSeq is designed to address the effects of both normalization and under-sampling of microbial communities on disease association detection and the testing of feature correlations.

This package produces metagene plots to compare coverages of sequencing experiments at selected groups of genomic regions. It can be used for such analyses as assessing the binding of DNA-interacting proteins at promoter regions or surveying antisense transcription over the length of a gene. The metagene2 package can manage all aspects of the analysis, from normalization of coverages to plot facetting according to experimental metadata. Bootstraping analysis is used to provide confidence intervals of per-sample mean coverages.

MetaDICT is a method for the integration of microbiome data. This method is designed to remove batch effects and preserve biological variation while integrating heterogeneous datasets. MetaDICT can better avoid overcorrection when unobserved confounding variables are present.

MetaboCoreUtils defines metabolomics-related core functionality provided as low-level functions to allow a data structure-independent usage across various R packages. This includes functions to calculate between ion (adduct) and compound mass-to-charge ratios and masses or functions to work with chemical formulas. The package provides also a set of adduct definitions and information on some commercially available internal standard mixes commonly used in MS experiments.

A set of annotation maps describing the entire MeSH assembled using data from MeSH.